TC4 Attaray class Schooner
| TC4 Attaray class Schooner | |
|---|---|
 Unpublished, non-canon fan design. | |
| Type: ES Schooner | |
| Category | ACS |
| Size | 400 Tons |
| Hull Configuration | TBD Hull |
| Streamlining | Unstreamlined Hull |
| Tech Level | TL–11 |
| Engineering | |
| Computer | Model 5 fib |
| Jump | J-2 |
| Maneuver | 3 G |
| Armaments | |
| Hardpoints | 4 |
| Accommodations | |
| Staterooms | 0 |
| Personnel | |
| Crew | 9 |
| Officers | 2 |
| Enlisted | 7 |
| High/Mid Passengers | 0 |
| Payload | |
| Cargo | 40 Tons |
| Fuel tank | 0 Tons |
| Construction | |
| Origin | Trooles Confederation |
| End of Service | Still in active service. |
| Price | |
| Cost | MCrTBD |
| Architect fee | MCrRonald B. Kline, Jr. |
| Statistics | |
| Images | |
| Blueprint | No |
| Illustration | No |
| Source | |
| Canon | Published, fan design |
| Era | 1105 |
| Reference | Fan: Ronald B. Kline, Jr. |
| Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance. | |
The TC4 Attaray class Schooner is a warship.
- It is a military ship and a Close Escort.
Description (Specifications)
The vessel has a fully streamlined flattened sphere structure hull. It is fitted with fuel scoops and fuel purification plant allowing it to perform wilderness ocean refueling.
Naval engineers complain that the out-sized fusion power plant is the reason the additional engineering mate is required, to "watch gauges for deuterium-tritium decay rates and check reactor pressures." The abundant power makes the vessel conspicuous to passive sensors, but allows agility, computer and six pulse lasers to all operate at the same time. Beam lasers were expected, some suspect embezzlement, some think a shortage shifted the available beam laser supplies to the larger ships in the fleet.
Image Repository
No information yet available.
General Description & Deck Plans
No information yet available.
Basic Ship Characteristics
Following the Imperial Navy and IISS Universal Ship Profile and data, additional information is presented in the format shown here. The small craft factor indicates the number of squadrons (...of ten subcraft) carried on the ship. Tonnage on the universal ship profile is shown in kilotons (...thousands of tons) where necessary. [1]
| Basic Ship Characteristics [2] | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Category | Remarks |
| 1. | Tonnage | 400 tons. |
| 2. | Crew | x9 crew: pilot, navigator, 4 engineers, medic, 2 gunners in 4.5 double occupancy staterooms. |
| 3. | Performance | Propulsion:
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| 4. | Electronics | Model/5 fib ship computer |
| 5. | Hardpoints | x4 hardpoints. |
| 6. | Armament | The normal weapons fit-out for it is:
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| 7. | Defenses | Factor-2 hull armor. |
| 8. | Craft | x1 4T TC004 Rambler class Grav APC |
| 9. | Fuel Treatment | Fuel Scoops and On Board Fuel Purification |
| 10. | Cost | MCr410.574 MCr. 328.459 (qty). |
| 11. | Construction Time | 64 weeks to build, 51 weeks in quantity. |
| 12. | Remarks | Other Equipment: |
History & Background (Dossier)
The TC4 Attaray class Schooner serves with the Trooles Confederation. Examples of the class can be encountered throughout the coreward parts of Theta Borealis Sector.
Historically, this TC4 Attaray class Schooner design was used for slaving, privateering, blockade running, and to support surface safari activities. Schooners were also popular among pirates noted for their range and wilderness refueling abilities. They can operate around planets and in gravity wells. Popular for their speed and agility. They can also land at ports too small for major fleet combatants such as frigates and trade galleons. They still hold enough weaponry to intimidate merchant vessels into submission.
Schooners first evolved from a variety of small merchant vessels used for trade routes and as pleasure yachts built for wealthy merchants. Navies started using the design as a light combatant, which lowered the speed and ease of handling, in favor of light hull plating armor. Schooners were immediately popular with colonial traders and privateers.
Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities
No information yet available.
Selected Variant Types & Classes
Military Vessel - Escort - Sloop:
References & Contributors (Sources)
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- Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 20-37. (Design Sequence Used)
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.